Interview with Giotis Kantartzis

There is nothing quick about the Great Commission. It takes time, commitment, and lifetimes of work. There are no shortcuts!
That's how Dr. Timothy Tennent opens this conversation, and it only gets more searching from there.
Dr. Timothy Tennent, who spent fifteen years as President of Asbury Theological Seminary, has taught every year for over three decades at New Theological College in India, and wrote Invitation to World Missions, one of the most important missiological texts of the 21st century. He now holds the Methodist Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. His daughter Bethany has spent 16 years among a Muslim people group in Tanzania and has now translated half the New Testament into a language with no prior Scripture.
In this episode of Global Missions in the 21st Century, Dr. Tennent joins us to unpack what it means to say that mission is fundamentally trinitarian and eschatological, why the West urgently needs a "missions selah," and what genuine preparation looks like for a new generation called to pioneer work among unreached peoples.
If you want to think more clearly and more biblically about the remaining task of global missions, this conversation is for you.

What if the diversity on your street is exactly what God is doing in the world?
Dr. Todd Johnson is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia. He spent his career tracking one of the most dramatic transformations in the history of Christianity, and he has the data to show it.
In this conversation, Dr. Johnson takes us from Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Wittenberg, sharing how God used a love of math and a season among Cambodian refugees to shape one of the world's leading scholars of global Christianity.
Along the way, he reflects on the legacy of his father-in-law, Ralph Winter, the underappreciated trend of integral mission, the massive shift of Christianity to the Global South, and what it means that the peoples of the world are literally moving in next door.
His word to those called to global missions? Become curious. Become empathetic. And embrace God's vision for the Church - a multi-ethnic family of believers from every tongue, tribe, and nation united in Jesus Christ.